One of the new features in the Kindle 2 is a text to speech feature so you can have your book read to you. This feature is not one I would have used much. If I want an Audiobook than I would go to Audible.com and buy it - with a great read. The Kindle feature uses text recognition which IMHO can be a bit wooden. (In fact a lot wooden.) But the Author's Guild thought this would cut into their take on audiobooks. What nonsense - if anything it might actually improve sales. But that is the way of Luddites.
Amazon rushed out an opt in feature where authors can allow their books to be converted in the text to speech feature. I will be interested to see how many authors opt in - anyone who is smart should.
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